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Solas

Solas is a 1999 Spanish drama, Benito Zambrano's debut feature, starring María Galiana, Ana Fernández, and Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa as a mother, daughter, and widowed neighbor in Seville. It won the 1999 Berlin Panorama Audience Award and five Goyas from eleven nominations.

SOLAS Convention

The SOLAS Convention (Safety of Life at Sea) is the international treaty setting minimum safety standards for merchant ships, adopted in 1974 and administered by the IMO.

Solasta II

Solasta II is Tactical Adventures' turn-based tactical RPG sequel to Solasta: Crown of the Magister, built on the D&D SRD 5.2 (2024) ruleset, set in Neokos, in Steam Early Access since March 12, 2026 with co-op multiplayer and the Warlock added in September 2026.

Solatio Energia

Solatio Energia is a Spanish developer and investor in large-scale photovoltaic power plants that has operated in Brazil since around 2009, with over 20 GWp of projects developed and a green hydrogen venture in Piauí.

Solazyme

Solazyme was an American biotechnology company founded in 2003 in South San Francisco that grew microalgae in fermentation tanks to make tailored oils, proteins, and food ingredients.

Solberg Inlet

Solberg Inlet (索爾伯格灣), Antarctic Peninsula inlet, ice-filled, 5-10 nmi wide, receding west 14 nmi between Rock Pile Peaks and Joerg Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land, near 68.3°S 65.2°W.

Sold Out on You (오늘도 매진했습니다)

Sold Out on You (오늘도 매진했습니다) is a 2026 SBS Wednesday-Thursday romantic comedy, 12 episodes, starring Ahn Hyo-seop as farmer Matthew Lee and Chae Won-bin as home-shopping host Dam Ye-jin; it topped Netflix's global non-English chart in its first week.

Soldano Ferrone

Soldano Ferrone (1940–2023) was an Italian-born immunologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher who developed monoclonal antibodies to HLA and melanoma antigens and showed how tumors escape immunity.

Solder

Solder is a fusible metal alloy, usually tin-based, melted below 450 °C to join metals without melting them; the eutectic 63Sn-37Pb alloy was long standard in electronics.

Solder joint fatigue

Solder joint fatigue is the mechanical degradation of solder joints that connect chips to circuit boards, caused by repeated thermal expansion cycles and often limiting a device's long-term reliability.

Solder paste

Solder paste, also called solder cream, is a blend of solder alloy particles and flux, applied to circuit board pads and melted in a reflow oven to form solder joints.

Soldering

Soldering is a group of joining processes that bond materials with a filler metal melting below 450 °C, the temperature above which the same process is called brazing.

Soldering iron

A soldering iron is a hand tool that heats a metal tip to melt tin-based solder below 450 °C, joining electronic components without melting the base metal.

Soldier

Soldier: an enlisted or noncommissioned member of armed forces, legally a combatant under IHL. Defined by seven role ideal types, Project A performance factors, MOS skill transfer, and UN peacekeeping service.

Soldier (1998 American film)

Soldier (1998) is a Paul W.S. Anderson sci-fi action film written by David Webb Peoples, starring Kurt Russell as obsolete super-soldier Todd 3465; a Blade Runner "sidequel" that grossed $14.6M against a $75M budget.

Soldier (1998 Indian film)

Soldier (सोल्जर) is a 1998 Hindi action drama by Abbas–Mustan starring Bobby Deol and Preity Zinta, about a son avenging his betrayed, killed army-officer father; not the Kurt Russell film.

Soldier Boy

Soldier Boy (Benjamin) is The Boys character: three legacy comic superheroes created by Garth Ennis, and the TV version played by Jensen Ackles, Homelander's father, a Russian-captive Supe with a radioactive depowering blast, returning in Vought Rising (2027).

Soldier Field

Soldier Field, opened in Chicago in 1924 as Municipal Grant Park Stadium, is a lakefront stadium and memorial best known as home of the Chicago Bears.

Soldier of Fortune (magazine)

Soldier of Fortune (SOF), The Journal of Professional Adventurers, is a Boulder, Colorado war and firearms magazine founded in 1975 by Green Beret Robert K. Brown, known for mercenary recruitment, gun-for-hire lawsuits, and its 2022 sale to Susan Katz Keating.

Soldier of Fortune (video game)

Soldier of Fortune (2000) is a Raven Software first-person shooter published by Activision, built on the Quake 2 engine with the GHOUL hit-location system, consultant John Mullins, and notorious dismemberment gore; ports to Dreamcast, PS2, and Linux followed.

Soldier Soldier

Soldier Soldier: British ITV military drama (1991-1997), created by Lucy Gannon, 7 series, 82 episodes, following the fictional King's Fusiliers; launched Robson Green and Jerome Flynn's chart-topping Unchained Melody.

Soldier's Medal

Soldier's Medal: the U.S. Army's highest noncombat valor decoration, authorized by Congress on 2 July 1926 for heroism involving voluntary risk of life outside conflict with an enemy; equivalent to the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Airman's Medal, and Coast Guard Medal.

Soldiers Alive

Soldiers Alive (Ikite iru heitai) is a novella by the Japanese writer Ishikawa Tatsuzō, published in 1938 and based on his reporting from the Japanese march on Nanjing.

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Pittsburgh's Beaux-Arts veterans memorial on Fifth Avenue in Oakland, opened 1910, designed by Henry Hornbostel after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, with a 2,500-seat auditorium and Hall of Valor.

Soldiers of Odin

Soldiers of Odin (SOO): anti-immigrant street-patrol vigilante movement founded October 2015 in Kemi, Finland, by Mika Ranta during the refugee crisis; spread via Facebook to roughly 20 countries by 2016 but declined in most; documented Nazi symbolism and SPLC hate-group listing.

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland)

The Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, dedicated July 4, 1894 on Cleveland's Public Square, honors about 9,000 county Civil War Union veterans; designed by Levi T. Scofield with bronze service groups and a Liberty statue.

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)

Indiana State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Monument Circle, Indianapolis: 284 ft 6 in limestone Civil War memorial by Bruno Schmitz, built 1888–1901, dedicated 1902, crowned by the bronze Victory.

Solduno

Solduno, a village in Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland, is the site of an extensive Iron Age (La Tène) and Roman necropolis with over 200 tombs, used from the mid-4th century BC to the mid-3rd century AD and excavated since 1935.

Solé

Solé (Tonya Michelle Johnston, born 1973, Kansas City) is an American rapper known for JT Money's 1999 hit "Who Dat" and her gold debut album Skin Deep on DreamWorks; distinct from the male rapper Sole (Tim Holland) of Anticon.

Sole (fish)

Sole is a common name for flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes) with both eyes on one side of the head; the name spans Soleidae, Pleuronectidae, and Bothidae, covering Dover sole, English sole, and lemon sole.